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When Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called out Sen. Marco Rubio at the third GOP debate Wednesday night, he may have insulted a nation. Bush, attacking Rubio for missing a string of Senate votes, said his rival needed to show up to work  which he said wasnt that hard, given the

Bethania Palma Markus On Wednesday, a Georgia high school student was sent home for violating the dress code at Beauford High School by wearing a fairly conservative-looking skirt that happened to show her knees. Carey Burgess posted a picture of herself wearing a black-and-white striped sweater and khaki skirt, saying a school staffer embarrassed her when

David Ferguson At the Republican primary debate on CNBC Wednesday night, candidate Ben Carson made claims  which were rapidly debunked  that he had no connection to Mannatech, a Christian-run company that sold bogus dietary supplements to the faithful. However, Carson is not the only evangelical Christian in the GOP race making money by

Travis Gettys Multiple witnesses are disputing police accounts of the shooting of an 18-year-old man near Ferguson, Missouri  the site of ongoing protests of the fatal police shooting of another black teenager last year. Police in Normandy, which is just south of Ferguson, said in a statement that Amonderez Green shot himself in the

Texas Tribune The Obama administration has warned state officials that pushing Planned Parenthood out of the states Medicaid program could put Texas at odds with federal law. Officials with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services contacted the state Medicaid director on Tuesday to give notice that removing Planned Parenthood from the program may be in

Reuters The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted to install Republican Representative Paul Ryan as its new speaker, replacing John Boehner following a revolt by conservative lawmakers who forced his retirement. Ryan won 236 votes among the 247 Republicans in the chamber, indicating that the Wisconsin congressman was deserted by only a handful of

Raven-Symoné is back in the hot seat after she angered fans with comments she made about Officer Ben Fields violently yanking a female student from her chair at Spring Valley High School. The controversial co-host of ABCs The View admitted that Fields actions were ridiculous, but said the student shouldnt have been using her cell phone

David Ferguson A post on Twitter by user Damito Jo (@kiaspeakes) showed on Thursday how the violent incident at Spring Valley High School  in which an white school safety officer brutalized a teenage black girl  could have gone differently. A former co-worker just shared this, wrote Damita Jo. This is how good teachers

Dan Roberts, The Guardian Before the third in an 11-game series of Republican primary debates descended into open mutiny on Wednesday night, each of the candidates to become president of the United States was asked to pretend they were in a job interview and name their biggest weakness. Related: Republican candidates attack media over tough

Heres some eye-opening news from plastic surgeons: A face-lift may make you look younger, but it wont necessarily improve your self-esteem. Doctors asked 59 patients who were planning to get face-lifts to answer 10 questions designed to assess their feelings of self-worth. The patients stated how strongly they agreed or disagreed with statements such as I

Bethania Palma Markus GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has once again failed to pass fact checking tests after Wednesday nights primary debate. CNNs New Day host Alisyn Camerota, confronted Fiorina on Thursday with evidence a data figure she gave during the debate wasnt accurate, and Fiorina responded rather nastily, in a video of the exchange